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||1900: Frédéric Joliot-Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1900: Frédéric Joliot-Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1914: Leonidas Alaoglu born ... Canadian-American mathematician and theorist. Pic: http://www.math.caltech.edu/events/alaoglu14.html | ||1914: Leonidas Alaoglu born ... Canadian-American mathematician and theorist ... known for his result, called Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theorem. Pic: http://www.math.caltech.edu/events/alaoglu14.html | ||
||1915: Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory. | ||1915: Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory. | ||
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1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1958: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Industrialist and alleged supervillain Baron Zersetzung declares the technique "an astonishing breakthrough, and a milestone in military-industrial contract fulfillment."
1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.
1979: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. He postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.